Accepting World Court

The United Nations was conceived as a force to maintain peace on the assumption that if enough of the world's strongest nations insisted on peace, then wars could not occur. Wars have definitely been reduced since the U.N. was formed, both in number and in size.

There are still too many places where there are tensions between people, usually over the ownership of land, as, for example, between the Israelis and the Palestinians. India and Pakistan also have a disagreement over land, Kashmir; both want to claim it. As long as these tensions remain, peace in the world will remain an elusive goal.

Peace can only be obtained in any situation when both sides are ready to accept peace. That means there has to be another means to settle disagreements beside war. We have that means; it is the world court. When all nations, including the United States, are ready to accept the world court's decisions, then, peace may be possible.

If all of the large, powerful nations of the world could agree to accept the U.N. and the world court, then their combined military force should be able to convince all of the small nations that they should also join in. As long as China, Russia and the U.S. remain divided on this issue, peace will be difficult to maintain, if not impossible.